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A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

Religion

A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

Quotations; Religious poetry

_Adversity_ misunderstood,
      Becomes a double curse:
    Her chastening hand improves the good,
      But makes the wicked worse.
    Thus clay more obdurate becomes,
      To the fierce flame consign’d;
    While gold in the red ordeal melts,
      But melts to be refin’d.
                            _C. C. Colton._




                              AFFECTION.


Set your _affection_ upon my words; desire them, and ye shall be
instructed.--Wisdom, vi. 2.

Set your _affection_ on things above, not on things on the
earth.--Colossians, iii. 2.

Be kindly _affectioned_ one to another.--Romans, xii. 10.


    Heavenly Father! God of love,
    Look with mercy from above;
    Let thy streams of comfort roll,
    Let them fill and cheer my soul.

    Love celestial, ardent fire;
    O extreme of sweet desire!
    Spread thy bright, thy gentle flame,
    Swift o’er all my mental frame.

    Sweet _affections_ flow from hence,
    Sweet above the joys of sense;
    Let me thus for ever be,
    Full of gladness, full of thee.
                                _Parnel._


    Precious are the kind _affections_
      Which around this life entwine,
    Making earth, with all its troubles,
      Something more than half divine.
    But, alas! they fade and perish,
      Like the bright and fragrant flowers,
    Sorrow blights, and death destroys them,
      And their beauty time devours.

    ’Tis not so with those _affections_,
      That are set on heavenly things;
    They will bloom and flourish ever,
      Watered by eternal springs;
    Warmed by everlasting sunshine,
      Sheltered from the storms of earth,
    Ever growing and increasing,
      Knowing nought of drought or dearth.
                                      _Anon._




                              AFFLICTION.


Before I was _afflicted_ I went astray; but now have I kept thy
word.--Psalm cxix. 67.

It is good for me that I have been _afflicted_, that I might learn thy
statutes.--Psalm cxix. 71.

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the _afflicted_, and
the right of the poor.--Psalm cxl. 12.

He was oppressed, and He was _afflicted_, yet He opened not His mouth:
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her
shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth.--Isaiah, liii. 7.

In all their _affliction_ He was _afflicted_, and the angel of His
presence saved them: in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and
He bare them and carried them all the days of old.--Isaiah, lxiii. 9.

Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will
heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up.--Hosea, vi. 1.

For our light _affliction_, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a
far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.--II. Corinthians, iv.
17.


    _Affliction_ has a taste as sweet
    As any cordial comfort.
                          _Shakspere._

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